In a message dated 5/9/2002 11:18:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > Will also kill the salt-intolerant plants. And it can be difficult to leach > out of the soil. > > For snails and slugs, Costco sells a big box of (I love this name) Snail > Death. I had no idea we had so many snails until I found their empty > shells. > The best and cheapest thing is diatomaceous earth for snails, only NOT around children it is very fine abrasive fossil seashells, snails cross it and get cut up so badly they bleed to death. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)

<ScismGenie@aol.com> wrote.... >.... it is very fine abrasive fossil seashells, snails cross it and get cut up so badly they bleed to death.< Awwwwwww.... poor li'l snails! :-(( Best, SueB